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[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Funnily enough we try to cultivate everything we like, so in a roundabout way they were successful.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

I guess... If you consider factory farmed chickens to be "successful."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the book Sapiens makes the point that wheat has trained us into cultivating it for selfish needs.

(Except that it's wheat, and that we annihilated 99% of its brethren to pick out the one that we liked so we could effectively clone it. But yes, we are the slaves...)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Sapiens and Homo Deus are both such good books. Lots of little anecdotes like that we're just so fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I think that’s basically what The Botany of Desire is about, right?